[OE-core] [RFC] Replace procps with procps-ng

[Paul Barker]

On 11 November 2014 09:00, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
>> Op 10 nov. 2014, om 11:38 heeft Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've tried upstreaming a patch against procps by sending it to the
>> listed maintainer and the mailing list and I've had no reply from
>> either. The last change to the CVS repository seems to be 3 years old
>> and the mailing list archive is mostly just full of spam.
>>
>> It looks like Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE have moved on to
>> procps-ng. I suggest we do the same during the v1.8 development cycle
>> if possible. procps-ng is actively developed and looks to be open to
>> patches.
>>
>> I'm sadly pretty limited on development time at the minute but I may
>> be able to give this a go in December. I'd rather focus the time I do
>> have on opkg though so if anyone else wants to pick this up that'd be
>> great.
>
> With the util-linux -> util-linux-ng -> util-linux change in mind I strongly encourage to keep using 'procps' are package name or ensure that the appropriate (R)PROVIDES are in place.
>
> regards,
>
> Koen

I've opened bug 6952 to track this
(https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6952).

Cheers,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk